Week in photos

The Florida Power & Light Riviera Beach power plant is demolished by explosives on Sunday morning, as seen from Lake Trail in Palm Beach. The demolition of the 1960’s-era, oil-fired generating units will make way for construction of a $1.3 billion natural-gas-fired power plant.

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Bosnian Muslim Halida Dudic, 52, gestures as she stands inside her shelter at the collective center for refugees near the northern Bosnian town of Zivinice north of Sarajevo, where she settled after being displaced from her home as a refugee from Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia in 1995. Many refugees and internal displaced persons still live in primitive shelters waiting to return to their destroyed pre-war homes years 16 years after the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

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A Chinese man wades through a flooded street with his tricycle in Lanxi city in east China’s Zhejiang province. Heavy rains pounded Zhejiang province over the weekend and the level of a river that passes through Lanxi city has risen sharply.

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Syria’s President, Bashar Assad delivers a speech in Damascus, Syria. Syria’s embattled president says “saboteurs” are trying to exploit legitimate demands for reform in the country. President Bashar Assad’s speech Monday was only his third public address since the country’s uprising began in March. What is happening today has nothing to do with reform, it has to do with vandalism,” Assad told a crowd of supporters at Damascus University. “There can be no development without stability, and no reform through vandalism. … We have to isolate the saboteurs.”

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Courtney Mitchell, a college professor, (R), offers a wedding ring to Sarah Welton, a lawyer, during their wedding ceremony at a Hindu temple in Katmandu, Nepal. The couple from Denver, Colorado, married in a Hindu Nepalese tradition in the first public lesbian wedding in the Himalayan nation that recently began recognizing gay rights and working to draft laws to end sexual discrimination.

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Students in school uniforms link their arms to form the flag of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in celebration of the party’s upcoming 90th anniversary during a photo call at a primary school in Dexing, Jiangxi province.

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A Eurofighter Typhoon performs its demonstration flight, on the first day of the Paris air show, at Le Bourget airport.

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A tree stands in a field as rain clouds pass by near the eastern German city of Dresden. Germany is experiencing very changeable weather of wet and sunny spells.

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Smoke billows from a burning car at the site of an attack on a French embassy convoy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

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A young Afghan refugee holds a water bottle The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) registration centre on the outskirts of Peshawar, prior to returning to her home country Afghanistan, after fleeing civil war and Taliban rule. Pakistan is host a refugee population of 1.9 million.

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A boy jumps into the waters of the Black Sea in the village of Molochnoye outside the town of Yevpatoria, Ukraine.

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People make their way through flood water in Lanxi, east China’s Zhejiang province. Flood-hit areas of central and southern China braced for more heavy rains Monday after millions of people were forced to evacuate or were otherwise affected by the early onset of the rainy season.

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A man runs on a submerged stone bridge at the Donghu Lake in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province due the torrential rainfall in recent days.

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A man prepares to walk up stairs at Hie shrine in Tokyo.

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The tall ship ‘Alexander von Humboldt’ sails the Baltic Sea near Kiel, Germany. Rides on tall ships are among the most favored tourist attractions during the traditional annual ‘Kiel Week’ sailing and maritime event. The ‘Alexander von Humboldt’ will lead this year’s ‘Windjammers’ parade.

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Former South African President Nelson Mandela (R) poses with First Lady Michelle Obama and her daughters Malia (L) and Sasha at his home in Johannesburg.

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Union Jacks are waved as Queen Elizabeth II departs following the 300th anniversary service of St Paul’s Cathederal in London. The anniversary comes after restoration work that took 15 years to complete, cost 40 million pounds and repaired damage left from World War II.

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Children play on a swing in Haldia, near Allahabad, India. Young women and children rejoice over a break in monsoon season by tying temporary rope swings on tree branches across many parts of India.

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A helicopter flies overhead as Syrians rally in support of President Bashar Assad in Damascus. Tens of thousands of people waving flags and pictures of Assad converged on Syria’s main squares Tuesday, pledging allegiance to their president in the latest show of government support to counter a three-month uprising against his authoritarian rule.

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A boy plays in a flooded street at Malabon, a northern Manila suburb, which was inundated by days of rains brought about by tropical storm Sepat. Classes in some schools were suspended after the fifth weather disturbance in the Philippines this year brought heavy rains and flooded low-lying areas of Manila.

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A surfer rides the thunderous “pororoca” tidal bore wave on the Amazon River near Caviana island in Marajo in Para State in the Brazilian jungle. The word “pororoca” comes from the Amazonian indigenous term meaning “destroyer, great blast”. The feared and thunderous waves capsize boats and wash away nearly everything in their path twice each day. The phenomenon begins when ocean tides reach the shallow river water flowing out at the mouth and can be heard two hours before arriving, producing waves of several meters, moving at speeds of up to 30 kilometers per hour.

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Emergency workers and investigators search a wreckage of Tu-134 plane, belonging to the RusAir airline, near the city of Petrozavodsk. The passenger jet crashed in heavy fog and burst into flames late Monday on a highway in northwestern Russia, just short of a runway whose fog lights had failed, killing 44 people.

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Russian guards of honor attend a ceremony to inaugurate a monument dedicated to World War I Russian soldiers in Paris.

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A visitor looks into the art installation “Tour” by Czech sculptor Lukas Rittstein, a converted Volvo coach, at the Terrassenufer (terraces waterside) near the river Elbe in Dresden, eastern Germany. A steel pipe connects the roof and the front windscreen of the bus.

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The wreckage of a single-engine propeller-driven Ilyushin II-103 lies on a road after the military trainer aircraft crashed near the Air Force Academy in Cheongwon, central South Korea. Officials say two airmen were killed when their military aircraft crashed during a training mission.

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Papuan tribe members ride a ceremonial boat on Lake Sentani during the Lake Sentani Festival close to the city of Jayapura in Indonesia’s eastern Papua province. The five-day annual festival is a celebration of Papua’s diverse ethnic culture and heritage while at the same time give hommage to Papua’s largest pristine lake that is a source of food and livelihood to the population.

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Morris Dancer Tom Clare, from the town of Brackley, in Northamptonshire, England, poses for a photograph during the summer solstice at Stonehenge, near Salisbury in England.

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A man rides a bike near a boat in a flooded lakeside park in Wuhan, Hubei province, China.

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The Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano spews thick ash. The volcano, which started to erupt on June 4, has spread ash through most of the southen hemisphere and has disrupting hundreds of flights.

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Greek Presidential guards perform at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of the parliament, in central Athens. Debate began in parliament last Sunday on a vote of confidence in the reshuffled government. The vote will take place late Tuesday. The ruling socialists have 155 deputies in the 300-seat parliament.

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Two women sunbathe on the sands of Leblon Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Though winter in Brazil officially began, temperatures soared.

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Models present creations from the Enrico Coveri Spring-Summer 2012 collection for men and women during the Milan Men’s Fashion Week in Italy.

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A picture of a man swimming is seen on a polluted river as a worker collects rubbish from a bamboo raft in Jakarta. Indonesian artist Fanny Octavianus placed the picture of a man swimming on a polluted river in protest against the pollution of the river in the capital, to mark the 484th anniversary of the city.

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People launch Chinese lanterns during the Kupala Night in Poznan, Poland. Kupala Night is a celebration of the shortest night in the year. It is celebrated in Poland, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

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A Pakistani boy leaps into a watercourse as the temperature rises on the outskirts of Lahore.

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A special edition foosball table featuring Barbie dolls that retails for EUR 20,000 stands on display at KaDeWe department store in Berlin, Germany. The table, made by U.S. toy manufacturer Mattel, goes under the motto “Barbie Loves DFB” (German Football Federation) and coincides with the FIFA Women’s World Cup, which kicks off Sunday in Berlin.

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Dancers from the Yarrabah community perform during the Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival in Laura, Australia. The Dance Festival is a celebration of aboriginal dance and culture that takes place Biennially in Cape York Peninsula at the site of a traditional Bora ground that is sacred to the aboriginal community and surrounded by some of the oldest rock art in the world.

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Demonstrators with housing debts are arrested by policemen during a rally near the Housing Ministry in Santiago. The rally was held against the government and Chile’s housing system.

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Firefighters set a back-burn as they try and control the Monument Fire in Ramsey Canyon, in Sierra Vista, Ariz.

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Former Dior designer John Galliano arrives at the Paris court house, Wednesday, charged with hurling anti-Semitic slurs in a Paris cafe – allegations that shocked the fashion world and cost him his job at the renowned French high-fashion house.

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Skateboarders ride the ramps at the brand new Phillips Park Skatepark on National Skateboarding Day in Aurora, Ill.

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) walks next to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin after a remembrance ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow. Russia marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the Soviet war against Nazi Germany, known to Russians as “The Great Patriotic War”.

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A fisherman holds his fishing net in his mouth in a polluted river in Wuhan, Hubei province. More than half of China’s cities are affected by acid rain and one-sixth of major rivers are so polluted the water is unfit even for farmland, a senior official said in a bleak assessment of the environmental price of the country’s economic boom.

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Belarusian school boys hold torches as they stand in front of one of the most important Soviet WWII war monuments marking the heroic resistance of the Red Army against the surprise German attack during a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of Nazi invasion in the town of Bres, southwest of Minsk, Belarus.

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Chinese dancers rehearse a performance of the Legend of Shangri-La in Sydney, Australia. The dance troupe from China’s Yunnan province will perform Wednesday at the official opening of the Year of Chinese Culture in Australia.

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An activist of the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) attacks a burning government bus with a stick during a clash between the police and members of the KMSS at a land demonstration against the government‚ drive to evict settlers from government land, in Guwahati, India.

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A Brazilian elite team member participates in the 2011 Commando Forces competition in San Salvador. 25 teams from countries of the hemisphere participate to prepare elite forces to fight terrorism and organized crime in Latin America.

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An aerial picture shows cattle herding near a river forming part of the Sudan Southern swamplands. These vast swamplands cover much of the northern area of South Sudan, and cattle forms a major part of many people’s livelihoods, as well as bearing strong cultural significance.

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Hundreds of people take part in a synchronized mass exercise during a ceremony of a government campaign to promote physical exercises at Beijing’s Olympic Forest Park in China.

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Indian weaver K. Saritha makes thread from silk yarn in a small scale factory at Gattuppal village, in southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

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A Filipino boy stands behind a vehicle to keep from the cold wind in a heavy downpour in Manila, Philippines.

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A policeman stands outside the apartment building where accused Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger was arrested in Santa Monica, California. On the run for 17 years, Bulger and his longtime girlfriend were finally caught in California by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday.

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A man drinks tea as another waits to transport supplies through a market in the old quarters of Delhi.

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President Barack Obama speaks to US Army soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, New York.

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A young demonstrator attacks an armored police vehicle during a standoff between loyalist and nationalist demonstrators in east Belfast .

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Laborers are silhouetted at daybreak as they unload steel rods at the site of a bridge construction in Lahore, Pakistan.

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University students battle with riot police in Huancayo, Peru. Clashes with students demanding the resignation of the dean of the National University of Central Peru (UNCP) have left 22 injured and 18 detained.

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A man dressed in a butterfly costume runs past a Corpus Christi procession in the city of Lodz.

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A US soldier from Viper Company (Bravo), 1-26 Infantry stands on a guard tower as the sun rises at Combat Outpost (COP) Sabari in Khost province in the east of Afghanistan.

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Farmers dry rice on the pavement in Nhan Hien village, south of Hanoi. Vietnam has been contracted to sell around 100,000 tons of 25 percent broken rice to several African nations so far this month, helping to keep prices stable at the start of a harvest in the Mekong Delta.

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A lightning storm lights up the sky in Boise, Idaho.

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Chinese people wade through a flooded road during a heavy rain storm in Beijing, China. Parts of Beijing have been flooded by torrential rain, and airport officials say the downpour forced the cancellation of 150 flights.

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A model wears a creation by Belgian fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck as part of his Spring/Summer 2012 fashion collection presented in Paris.

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An Indian man on a makeshift raft searches for reusable items in offerings thrown by people in the Sabarmati River , in Ahmadabad, India.

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A resident throws his fishing net at the swollen Marikina River in Marikina city, east of Manila, Philippines, after heavy rains inundated the capital overnight. The heavy rains, brought about by Tropical Storm Meari (locally called Falcon) triggered flash floods and rough seas, forcing classes to be suspended Friday, government offices to be shut down and dozens of flights to be canceled.

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A visitor gets into an egg at the student section of Finland’s exposition at the Prague Quadrennial 2011. Prague Quadrennial is the world’s largest performance design event. Various projects explore scenography as a discipline existing in-between the visual and the performing arts.

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Members of a Gnaoua troupe parade along a street in Essaouira ahead of the start of the Gnaoua World Music Festival. The annual festival provides an opportunity for Gnaoua musicians to perform to international audiences and to play with foreign musicians.

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Myanmar police inspect the site of a blast which destroyed a car near the main market in the central city of Mandalay. Two bombs exploded in Myanmar’s capital and the central city of Mandalay , the latest in a series of blasts in the military-dominated country.

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Devotees, locally known as children of mud attend mass during a religious festival in Aliaga, north of Luzon with their bodies covered in mud and banana leaves.

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Ducati MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi of Italy (R) leads Ducati MotoGP rider Loris Capirossi of Italy into a curve during the qualifying practice of the MotoGP Grand Prix in Assen.

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Palestinians ride horses as they enjoy the warm weather on a Gaza City beach.

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The installation “Dropping Bay” by Collectif Fact is seen at “Bex & Arts”, a triennial outdoor contemporary sculpture exhibition at Szilassy property in Bex, Western Switzerland.

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A rider spears a suspended ring with a lance as he races through a cheering crowd in the Balearic town of Ciutadella during Menorca’s traditional Fiesta of San Juan.

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Large homes, a waste-water treatment plant and other businesses are cut off from the rest of Plattsmouth, Nebraska by Missouri River flood waters. The Missouri River, swollen by heavy rains and melting snow, has been flooding areas from Montana through Missouri.

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A member of the Dancing Devils of Naiguata dramatize the struggle between good and evil during Corpus Christi celebrations in Naiguata, outskirt of Caracas, Venezuela.

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Wimbeldon staff watch the match between Belgium’s Yanina Wickmayer and Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon.

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President Barack Obama speaks at the Democratic National Committee’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Leadership Gala in New York.